Fire Island’s Joel Kim Booster wants to do more gay Jane Austen adaptations – Digital Spy

Joel Kim Booster – writer and star of Fire Island – has said he wants to do more gay Jane Austen adaptations.

Discussing his movie Fire Island, a reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Booster said adapting the novel was itself a “fun exercise” and that he would consider doing it again (via IndieWire).

“One of the reasons I wrote this movie in the first place is it’s a fun thought exercise to be like, ‘What are all the parallels? How can I make Wickham a modern day gay man? What is the calculus that’s going into these things?'” Booster explained.

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According to Booster, his love for book adaptations presents itself every time he reads an Austen novel, and he thinks about all the ways he can adapt them into an LGBTQ+ film.

“I love adaptation. Every time I read a Jane Austen book, I’m always like, ‘Oh, how can we make this gay?’ It’s just the way my brain is broken,” he quipped.

Not ruling out the possibility of taking on another Austen book, Booster said he would like to try his hand at some other projects before going back to Austen.

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“It’s definitely something I’ve thought about but I need to try other things before I return to a Jane Austen adaptation. But it’s not off the table, for sure,” Booster said.

Earlier in the year, Booster defended his film in response to controversial comments made by Billy Eichner about LGBTQ+ films being released on streaming services.

“I’m not entirely sure what happened, but I feel like I should say: Billy was my first comedy boss, is my friend and has supported me in countless ways in the making of Fire Island and ultimately our movies had very little to do with each other,” he tweeted.

Fire Island is available on Star on Disney+ in the UK and on Hulu in the US.

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